420 XLIII. LEGUMINOS^E. [Vida. 
Subgenera II. Ervum. — Annuals, with flowers in sparse pedunculate racemes, 
rarely solitary. Style finely downy all round near the tip. 
2. V. hirsuta (hairy), Koch. Syn. 191 ; Baker in FI. Trop. Afr. ii. 173. 
Stems annual, slender, trailing, pubescent. Stipules linear-lanceolate, with 1 or 
more setaceous teeth. Leaflets in 8 to 10 pairs, linear. Flowers 3 to 6 in a 
stalked dense raceme, about 1^ line deep, teeth linear. Style slightly compressed. 
Pod 4 lines long, 2 lines broad, hairy, 2-seeded . — Ervum ldrsutum, Linn. 
Hab.: A stray from cultivation in south Queensland. 
50. ABRUS, Linn. 
(Leaves soft and tender.) 
Calyx campanulate, truncate, or shortly and broadly toothed. Standard ovate, 
the short claw adhering to the base of the staminal tube ; keel much curved, the 
petals united from the base, often longer than the wings. Stamens 9, united in 
a sheath open on the upper side, the upper one deficient. Ovary sessile, with 
several ovules ; style short, incurved ; stigma terminal. Pod oblong or linear, 
flat, 2-valved, with cellular partitions between the seeds, seeds not strophiolate. 
Stems usually twining or trailing, woody at the base. Leaves abruptly pinnate, 
with several pairs of small leaflets, without stipelke, the common petiole ending 
in a short point. Racemes terminal or axillary, the flowers in clusters on lateral 
thickened nodes. Bracts minute or none, bracteoles none. 
A small genus dispersed over the tropical regions both of the New and the Old World, the 
only Australian species extending over the whole range. It is in some measure intermediate 
between the tribes Viciece, Phaseolece, and Dalbergiece. — Benth. 
(Placed in Phaseolece in FI. Austr., and in Viciece by the authors of the Gen. Plant.) 
1. A. precatorius (prayer; seeds used for rosaries), Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 
381; Bentli. FI. Austr. ii. 270. Seed called Jequerity. “ Do-anjin-jin,” Batavia 
River, “ Pun-dir Pun-dir,” Cooktown, Both. Glabrous or slightly pubescent. 
Leaflets 7 to 10 pairs, oblong-elliptical or nearly obovate, usually about ^in. long. 
Racemes with 1 or 2 leaves, or at least with a leafless pair of stipules below the 
flowers, the flowering part lin. or rather more in length, the nodes rather crowded. 
Flowers pink, or rarely white or purple, 5 or G lines long, the keel narrow, longer 
than the wings. Pod sessile, about 2in. long and G lines broad, almost squared 
at both ends and attached by the inner angle, glabrous or scaly outside. Seeds 
usually black with a large scarlet spot, sometimes brown with a darker spot, or 
white and unspotted. — Lam. Illust. t. 608, f. i.; W. and Arn. Prod. i. 236; A. 
paucijiorus, Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ix. 418 ; A. squamulosus, E. Mey, Comm. PI. 
Afr. Austr. 126. 
Hab.: From Burnett to Cape York, and islands of Torres Straits, Gulf of Carpentaria, Ac.. 
A very common coast twiner, frequent also (but perhaps naturalised, Bentham says) in several 
parts of South America. 
51. CLITORIA, Linn. 
(From clitoris , supposed resemblance in flower.) 
(Neurocarpum, Desv.) 
Calyx tubular, the two upper lobes slightly connate, the lowest narrow. 
Standard large, erect, open, narrowed at the base without auricles ; wings 
shorter, spreading, adhering to the keel in the middle ; keel shorter, incurved, 
acute. Upper stamen free or more or less united with the others ; anthers 
uniform. Ovary stipitate, with several ovules, style elongated, incurved, more 
or less dilated upwards and bearded longitudinally on the inner side. Pod linear, 
flattened, the upper or both sutures thickened, the sides flat or convex, occa- 
sionally bearing a raised longitudinal rib. Seeds globose or flattened, without 
